Hong Kong Afterdark

We really enjoyed this room! Theming and set design were great. The puzzles were well designed and thematic instead of the usual just finding keys for arbitrary locks. As others have mentioned there is a timed puzzle that can be tricky as the inputs don't always work and you wind up starting over and over again. We finished with a decent amount of time left, but even though it's two hours it goes by so quickly!

This is hands down the best escape room I've played in Toronto so far. The puzzles, story, and set design are all executed at an extremely high level. The volume and difficulty of the puzzles are on the higher side — even with a two-hour time limit, it felt just barely enough. I highly recommend this room to players who truly enjoy challenging escape-room experiences. The set perfectly recreates a Hong Kong setting, and the puzzles are thoughtfully designed around Hong Kong–specific elements. One tip: if you want to finish within the time limit, it really helps to be familiar with the rules of Mahjong beforehand.

Room is great, storyline is intriguing and keeps you hooked all game if you choose to follow it. Set is amazing and the puzzles were fun. However there’s 1 game puzzle that’s almost impossible to complete without prior knowledge on how the specific board game works (even the game master couldnt figure it out without a cheat sheet) and one of the last puzzles is time based and the equipment doesn’t register the inputs every time so it’s more luck based then skill. Other that then it was a very enjoyable and challenging room.

🕵️‍♀️ Another great, immersive escape room by Omventure. I really loved this set! There was a detective element to this room that my group didn’t care for, although I do commend Omventure for trying something different narratively. In this case, I think it becomes a bit overdone- you wait around a fair bit of time watching videos when you’d rather be working the room. As a result, my group did largely ignore any “evidence” we collected- until you’re literally forced to review it in the last ten minutes of the game. Can I still complain about a puzzle’s difficulty even though this is an expert level room? There was one puzzle toward the end that drove us bananas and did feel slightlyyy unfair. Very enjoyable, but I can see how people would be split on this one. You can definitely still enjoy this as a “regular” escape room no matter the degree of attention you pay the story, and I would still call it a must-play! I hope Omventure continues to explore outside-the-box storytelling techniques because when they nail it I know it’s gonna be great.

Solved the same logic puzzle over and over. Watched at least four videos made of low quality stock footage. Timed arcade elements with a Rosetta Stone thrown into the mix for no reason. Nothing here was new or interesting.

The set was immersive, nicely decorated with a lot of details. There were a lot of rooms and different puzzles which fit the theme perfectly. One of the few rooms that fit a group of 6 people perfectly. One thing I was disappointed about was that we had to skip a few of the puzzles due to technical skills even after we figured out how to complete the puzzle--it was just simply too hard to complete. As a result, we wasted a lot of time on one of the puzzles.

This is a game FOR enthusiasts. It has so many amazing elements and interesting game play. There were some puzzles that you needed prior knowledge for which was pretty tricky, and we needed help from the Games Masters for. That didn’t dampen our experience though, we had such a good time. I will say this game needs minimum 5 people to get through and you will not stop. Such a good time!

Loved the atmosphere and the difficulty of the puzzles. Was such a fun time and very immersive. The room is linear so going with less is better. Any many puzzles you can’t really have more than 2-4 working on at any given time. However there is a lot to do and the “whodunnit” aspect is better with more people. So 5-6 players might be a sweet spot? We did it with 4 experienced people and escaped but it was a lot. There was a lot of story to absorb in a short period of time. I honestly would have been fine with just the escape room aspect rather than the voting/whodunnit part.